Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1069 329. Children's reunion with old friends

At exactly seven o'clock on Sunday morning, the cell phone next to the pillow on the floor in the study rang and vibrated, breaking the tranquility of the early morning.

Lee Ang turned off the alarm clock in a daze.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already half past nine in the morning.

I picked up my phone again and flipped through it for a moment, feeling that every message was important.

But he needs to take a little rest this morning. God knows how tired he has been these past two days.

Today was the first time in his life that Li An canceled his Sunday class because he wanted to take a break.

"Brother Zhao, the bank has approved it."

After sending a message to Lao Zhao, Li An got up from the ground.

There were only two kittens walking around leisurely in the living room.

I don’t know where the car took the old couple again, but they said they were going out for a walk yesterday morning, and ended up going to see giant pandas along the way.

There were steamed buns and porridge in the pot in the kitchen. Judging from the temperature of the pot, the three people should have been out not long ago.

"Linlin, where have you been?"

The old couple had to rush to the airport at noon, and they couldn't do the same as yesterday afternoon, when they almost missed the concert.

Xiaoche said on the phone that they had just arrived at Chengnan Lane, "Grandpa and grandma wanted to buy some local specialties, and the teacher asked you not to worry about us, saying that we would be back in an hour at most."

Li Anle: "You can tell him that two hours is enough time."

After hanging up the phone with Xiaoche, Li An took out some buns from the pot and served himself a bowl of porridge.

Before the food reached the table, the phone in his pocket started ringing again.

Li An quickened his pace, freed his hand, took out the phone and answered it immediately.

"Hey, Brother Zhao."

"Teacher Li, let's schedule the online signing tomorrow."

Li An was just about to say "brother" to Lao Zhao, "I can't spare time here tomorrow afternoon. Is Mr. Guo available in the morning? Wednesday or Thursday is also fine."

Lao Zhao: "Okay, I'll coordinate with him. How are your thoughts on the window plan?"

Li An: "Wait a little longer."

Lao Zhao: "Okay, Mr. Li, you are busy here first. Mr. Guo and I will confirm the time and send you a message."

Li An: “It’s hard work.”

After hanging up the phone with Lao Zhao, Li An took out the window sealing plan and took a look at it.

The night before yesterday, Li An received the floor plan of the window sealing plan sent by Lao Zhao. It can be said that the three plans do have their own advantages and disadvantages.

If you want a whole large window, you can only open it less, which directly affects ventilation.

If ventilation is required, points will be lost in terms of aesthetics.

In fact, Ang Lee didn't care. He had never lived in such a nice house since he was a child. When it came to the stage of implementing the plan, to be honest, he thought all the plans were good.

Just wait for Teacher Xiaomi’s decision.

After a while, Lao Zhao replied and asked them to gather at the entrance of the housing transaction hall at 9:30 tomorrow morning.

'See you tomorrow.'

After replying Lao Zhao’s message, Li An continued eating.
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Just before eleven o'clock in the morning, Xiaoche and the old couple returned.

Li An came out of the study and saw that the three people had empty hands. This was not in line with the old couple's personality.

Upon asking, it turned out that it was Xiaoche who came up with an idea, which was to ask the merchant to directly send the things the old couple wanted to buy back to Yucheng by express delivery.

Li Anle: "Look how smart you are."

Car: "Hey."

Lao Li: "It's already eleven o'clock, let's pack up and go out to eat something."

Mother An: "That's right, come back early and take care of your things."

Li An: "Linlin, go to the door and order four bowls of beef noodles. We will be there soon."

Xiaoche: "Okay, teacher!"

Li An helped the old couple put their luggage in the car. After the four of them had lunch, Li An parked the car in the store and drove to the airport.

On the way, An's mother didn't say much, just listened to the father and son talking about retirement and decoration issues.

When they arrived at the airport lobby, Li An felt quite uncomfortable after hearing some instructions from An's mother.

After this separation, I don’t know when we will meet again. When Dad Yuezhong comes to Chengdu again, Mom will be alone at home.

Li An: "Mom, you too, take care of yourself."

Mother An: "Don't worry about me. Go back quickly. Your father and I will go in."

Lao Li: "Go ahead. I'll text you after we pass security. We're going in."

Li An nodded and waved at the backs of his parents.

After receiving the message from Lao Li, Li An was still worried and video chatted with his mother.

Seeing that the old couple was already waiting at the boarding gate, Li Ang hung up the video with peace of mind.

Then he called Li Jun, who was already on his way to Lanzhou Airport.

Li Jun will be responsible for picking up the old couple later.
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After leaving the airport, Li Ang stepped on the accelerator all the way and drove straight to Shu Ren after getting off the highway.

This afternoon is the last concert, and then we will wait for the final results the day after tomorrow.

As of 10:30 this morning, one hundred and sixty-five parents have registered their children for this semester's orchestral club through Shu Ren's backend system.

The backstage registration deadline is 5:30 p.m. the day after tomorrow. There is still a concert to go, and at this rate, the final number of students enrolled will not be less than 200.

Even if it ends now, it is still far beyond Ang Lee's expectations.

It can be said that this recruitment campaign has been a great success. Li An made a rough calculation and conservatively estimated that the net profit he would receive would not be less than fifty. This is just the beginning.

But before that, there is still a problem to be solved, which is how to evenly distribute the number of students in each voice section.

Currently, there are more than 30 children who want to learn saxophone, accounting for more than one-fifth of the total number of students who have registered for all voice parts.

The total number of people who signed up for tuba and trombone was less than ten.

It's really a drought, a drought, and a flood.

We can only blame the song selection at the end of the show, and cannot blame Liu Zhaocheng for his good playing.

For two consecutive days, when the last Conan performance started and the saxophone melody sounded, the kids in the audience went crazy.

"Here comes the head!"

Xiao Ge and a few others were fiddling with musical instruments on the stage when they saw Ang Lee walk in from the main entrance of the concert hall.

"It's nice to be young."

I really admire Ang Lee. He has so much energy after filming for two consecutive days.

Walking quickly onto the stage, Li An greeted several people and then asked, "Are Teacher Feng and Teacher Jiang here?"

"I came early," Wang Wenyang replied, "I'm chatting backstage."

Li An clapped his hands: "Go and call him. Let's hurry up and discuss something."

Hearing Li Ang's words, everyone gathered around.

Then Lao Feng and Lao Jiang also came to the stage.

"Teacher Feng and Teacher Jiang, this is what I want to do. I want to change the last program a little bit."

In view of the current uneven registration of vocal parts, Ang Lee plans not to let Liu Zhaocheng play the main melody in today's Conan.

"Zhaocheng can't squeeze in any more students, otherwise we won't be able to attend the rest of the classes. The enrollment situation here and for Teacher Jiang is not optimistic." Old Feng nodded, "I'm bragging to Old Jiang."

Lee Ang: “Yes, that’s what I mean.”

Lao Jiang: "No problem, let's close it now?"

Li An: "Grab your weapons, we need to hurry."

Just like that, half an hour before the concert started, Conan's main melody part was changed to be played by tuba and trombone.

Sounds pretty good too.

At 2:30 sharp, the auditorium was once again filled with audiences and the third enrollment concert began.
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"Wow—"

Forty minutes later, as the Conan theme song ended, the enrollment concert ended successfully amid warm applause from the audience.

The subsequent interaction with the children's parents had to be left to other teachers. After Li An and Xu Li gave some instructions, they took Zhang Yunshu, Qiao Zhizhi and others and left through the backstage emergency exit.

The first public welfare lecture was about to begin at four o'clock, and a few people had to go to the store to warm up the audience.
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There are still twenty minutes before the public welfare class starts, and the second floor of piano classroom No. 4 is almost full of people.

Xiaoche was waiting for the teacher downstairs when he suddenly saw a familiar pair of figures walking towards the stairs from afar.

Xiao Che was stunned. She remembered the father and daughter very clearly, but what was the girl's name? ?
As Xiaoche was trying hard to recall, the father and daughter had already walked down the stairs.

The girl was wearing a blue coat, had a ponytail and had a rosy face.

When passing by the car, both the father and daughter paused. The girl smiled at Che Lin cautiously, as if she had recognized Che Lin a long time ago, but did not dare to take the initiative to say hello.

Just when Xiaoche remembered the girl's name, Mu Xin at the door had already welcomed the father and daughter into the gate.

Zhang Yahui!
Xiaoche instinctively wanted to shout out the name, but swallowed it back when it reached his lips.

At this time, Li An also drove to the store door, and Wang Xiaohu and Qiao Zhizhi jumped out of the car one after another.

"Che Lin!"

"Sister Linlin!"

The two of them greeted Xiaoche, but Xiaoche's mind was full of Zhang Yahui. He just said hello perfunctorily and then ran up as soon as he saw the teacher get off the car.

"Teacher, Zhang Yahui and her father are here too."

Li An frowned and immediately thought of the father and daughter at the Blue Sky Cup last year.

"Zhang Yahui?" Wang Xiaohu shuddered for no reason when he heard the name. "She, she, she," he mentioned it for a long time but couldn't make any conclusion.

Qiao Zhizhi: "Who is Zhang Yahui?"

Li An interrupted San Hai: "Okay, stop discussing, let's go upstairs and get ready."

Zhang Yunshu and a few others carried their musical instruments and went up to the second floor in a cart, while Wang Xiaohu followed Li Ang to the meeting room.

Li An: "Why don't you go up?"

Wang Xiaohu said awkwardly: "Teacher, why is Zhang Yahui here to attend the lecture?"

Lee An: "Any questions? You can come and listen, and she can come and listen."

Wang Xiaohu: "Teacher, that's not what I meant, but her father didn't mean that either."

Li An: "Just take care of yourself. If you have nothing to do, go and wait at the door. Liu Fengrui should be here soon."

Wang Xiaohu: "Xiaobei and Ma Ke are really not coming?"

"They can't come," Li An said after a pause, "Don't make a fuss later."

Wang Xiaohu nodded: "Understood."

Li An: "Go ahead, you two can go upstairs and find an empty seat in the front row."

After Wang Xiaohu left, Li An came to the surveillance screen in the second-floor lobby and found Zhang Dong and his daughter after searching for a while.

It must be said that he didn't expect Zhang Dong to bring his daughter here.

In his impression, Zhang Dong is a teacher who is conservative and a father who is so paranoid that he is almost anti-personality.

So are you sending your daughter to learn piano?
Or did you just bring your daughter here to attend the lecture?

But no matter what the situation is, Ang Lee thinks it is a good thing, at least a good start.

In fact, whenever Ang Lee talks about piano teaching with others, he would unconsciously think of the father and daughter who appeared at the Blue Sky Cup competition.

Especially the scene in the corridor, where a seemingly gentle father yells at his daughter. Ang Lee feels a chill down his spine every time he recalls it.

What a well-behaved child! How could a father treat a child like this?

In addition, several children later told him about what happened backstage, which made him feel even more sad for the fate of the girl Zhang Yahui.

If learning the piano only brings physical and mental pain, Ang Lee would rather there be no music in this child's world.

When the sound of Trout's piano was heard from the second floor, Li Ang left the meeting room.

The warm-up has already begun on the second-floor stage. Zhang Yunshu, Qiao Zhizhi, Li Wanying, Ren Boyuan, four string instruments and a small piano, the five of them work together very well.

Looking down, the makeshift auditorium was also quiet.

Amid the melodious music, the parents and children's attention was now focused on the small car in front of the piano, and no one noticed Li Ang's arrival.

However, Wang Xiaohu and Liu Fengrui did not sit in the front row. It seemed that the two children wanted to stay away from Zhang Dong and his daughter.

Can understand.

At the stairs, Li An whispered to Hai Tao: "Let Lao Tang check his phone later."

Then he found a seat in the last row and took out his cell phone to start editing.

Haitao walked to the left side of the stage and whispered something into Lao Tang's ear, then Lao Tang took out his cell phone.

Ang Lee: I'll find a chance to tap the girl in blue in the first row and ask her to come on stage. Give her some encouragement.

Lao Tang put away his phone and subconsciously looked towards the first row. The girl in blue clothes looked so familiar. Then Lao Tang remembered last year's Blue Sky Cup!

The girl played Haydn at the time, and Lao Tang was very impressed. The girl played something very strange, and it could not be said that she played well, nor could it be said that she played badly.

As the warm-up music ended, applause broke out in the audience.

Zhang Yahui looked at Che Lin, a classmate sitting in front of the piano, with her eyes curved like two crescent moons, but the sound of her little hands clapping was not loud, as if she was afraid of attracting the attention of people around her.

But at this moment she was indescribably happy. During lunch, her father suddenly said that he would take her to a place to attend a class in the afternoon.

She never imagined that the lesson her father was going to take her to was piano lesson. Even at this moment she felt it was unreal.

She liked it here, especially the piano room here. Through the bright glass wall, she could see the big window outside the piano room.

"Wow—"

Xiaoche withdrew her hand and stood up, facing everyone's gaze. She smiled slightly and bent down towards Zhang Yahui who was sitting in the middle of the first row.

The eyes of the two girls on and off the stage met at this moment, and Zhang Yahui unconsciously increased the strength of her clapping hands.

After the warm-up guests were sent off with applause, Lao Tang walked onto the stage holding the microphone.

"good afternoon everyone."

Stopping in the center of the stage, Old Tang looked around and said with a smile: "My name is Tang Shaochong, and I am the speaker of today's topic. Welcome all the adults and children."

"Wow————"

Applause broke out again from the audience.

Lao Tang’s topic today is to explore children’s musical potential and how to improve their piano practice efficiency at home.

At the beginning of the course, Lao Tang asked three questions to the audience and interacted with the parents and children.

The atmosphere is very good.

When Zhang Yahui was invited to the stage by Lao Tang, Ang Lee got up and left after listening to Zhang Yahui's performance.

He had no plans to show up at the public welfare lecture this afternoon.

"Sister Yun, if a child named Zhang Yahui signs up later, please recommend Lao Tang to her parents."